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Featured | January 13, 2021The Blanchard Difference
The Premier Authority on Precious Metals and Rare Coins
Unmatched Industry and Market Expertise
Blanchard continues to lead the industry with the most talented and experienced team of precious metals and numismatic experts. This expertise is readily available to help you enhance and protect wealth through the strategic acquisition of tangible assets.
Advisors You Can Trust to Do the Right Thing
We stake our business on being honest, open and forthright with every client, and we take pride in our reputation for integrity. Our commitment to doing the right thing includes a 100% buyback guarantee to purchase your investment back at any time.
Driven by Your Long-Term Success
There are no single transactions here. With our consultative approach to service, we aim to develop long-term relationships that help you achieve sustained financial success. Throughout your Blanchard experience, a dedicated portfolio manager will be assigned to you to advocate in your best interest.
Moves Independently from Traditional Securities
Gold is a physical asset, meaning you own something you can hold that has inherent value. In contrast, stocks are equities that signify partial ownership in the issuing company, with no inherent value.
Gold is also among the most negatively correlated assets to stocks -when stocks go down, gold prices go up. That is why we strongly recommend allocating up to 20% of your overall financial portfolio to precious metals and rare coins.
Gold, ETFs and Mining Shares: A Comparison
Strengths
- A physical holding with inherent value
- Hedges against paper stocks volatility
- Balances portfolio performance
- Protects against bank failures
- Private, with minimal reporting requirements
- Great liquidity; considered a currency
- Nominal spreads
Considerations
- Must be physically held, stored and secured
- Must be purchased from reputable vendor to ensure quality and security
Strengths
- Easy way to trade on gold prices
- Can be part of a larger account for diversification purposes
- Can buy and sell quickly
- Good choice for short investment horizons
- Private with minimal reporting requirements
- Great liquidity; considered a currency
- Nominal spreads
Considerations
- A paper stock; holds no inherent value
- Susceptible to exploration risks and geological/meteorological challenges
Strengths
- High risk, with high potentail rewards
- Can buy and sell quickly
Considerations
- A paper stock; holds no inherent value
- Susceptible to exploration risks and geological/meteorological challenges
- High reporting requirements
- Prone to leadership or human resources issues
Diversifying Within Gold: Our Proven Strategy
Realize the Highest Long-Term Return on Investment
Through decades of research and experience helping clients invest wisely in gold, we’ve identified an asset allocation strategy within gold that offers the best performance after five years.
Tangible Assets: A Variety of Lucrative Options
We’ll Help You Choose from the Following
With decades of experience personally helping clients diversify their portfolios through alternative investments, Blanchard stands uniquely qualified to help you understand and wisely select the right investment options for your needs.
6 Compelling Reasons to Invest in Tangible Assets
Portfolio Diversification
Gold is the ideal stock portfolio diversifier, because it negatively correlates to stocks — when stocks go down, gold goes up. Precious metals and rare coins also react to different market conditions than stocks and bonds, making them attractive tools for keeping portfolios balanced through economic cycles.
Intrinsic Store of Value
One major reason investors look to precious metals and rare coins as an asset class is because they will always maintain an intrinsic value. Unlike currency or securities that only hold value hypothetically, these rarities are something physical that you can hold — and therefore hold a certain worth.
Safe Haven During Economic Crises
Bullion, investment grade gold and rare coins tend to outperform other investments during times of economic uncertainty. In fact, many refer to gold as the “crisis commodity” due to its excellent resilience through the most difficult periods in recent U.S. history.
Hedge Against Inflation and the U.S. Dollar
Gold in particular is renowned as a hedge against inflation. As inflation goes up, the price of gold generally goes up along with it. Gold is also bought and sold in U.S. dollars, so any decline in the value of the dollar typically increases the price of gold.
Simplified Wealth Transfer
Many trust attorneys and retirement planning professionals recommend bullion and rare coins as an efficient and discreet method of transferring wealth to the next generation.
High Demand, Limited Supply
Gold demand is outpacing supply while production is declining. Both the Chinese and Indian governments are purchasing gold in unprecedented quantities and encouraging their increasingly well-off citizens to accumulate bullion. Gold demand has also surged from central banks, which have been net buyers since 2009. All of these realities will help keep the value of this precious metal high into the foreseeable future.
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